City of the end of things
Subtitle: lectures on civilization and empire
By: Northrop Frye, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Togo Salmon ; introduction by Jonathan Hart [editor].
Contributors: Hart, Jonathan.; Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.; Frye, Northrop.; Salmon, Edward Togo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780195430059
Subjects: Civilization, Modern; Physics; Civilization, Modern -- 20th century; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Notes: Lectures from a series given at McMaster University from 1956 to the present.
Table of contents: title: The flying trapeze : three crises for physicists (1964) / J. Robert Oppenheimer; title: The modern century (1967) / Northrop Frye; title: The nemesis of empire (1974) / Edward Togo Salmon.